Word: jehoshaphat
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...Fred Becker, a newsmagazine writer who "floats" from section to section. Among the book's characters are Doc Kennedy, a medicine writer who keeps coming down with the ailments that he writes about, and Woody Fenton, a managing editor who communicates mainly with phrases like "Golly" and "Jumping Jehoshaphat." Alas, no mention is made of the magazine's publisher...
...common enough occurrence in this narrative, Heller turns to the slapstick of Mel Brooks circa the comedy routine "The 2,000-Year-Old Man" and the film The History of the World-Part I: pointless anachronisms (" 'Send a wire!' I shouted. 'We have no wires,' Jehoshaphat recalled for me") and noises in descending orders of rudeness...
...Kinsey! O Jehoshaphat...
...Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, under Dr. Slousch, excavated the so-called tombs of Absalom and Jehoshaphat, dated about the 4th Century B. C., in the ancient cemeteries east of Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish fanatics opposed the work until a wall collapsed exposing the façade of the tomb of Jehoshaphat...
...Jehoram, king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, and seventh king of the line of David, married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands...
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